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Hamnet is an event which started its activities in 1394 with the initiative of Isfahan Elite Foundation and with the chairman of Dr. Shaghayegh Haghjoo. During this one-year period, three Hamnet event are held. This event tries to recognize villagers’ abilities and use capacities provided by web space in order to contribute to promotion and stability of villages and increase contribution of villages in economy of country. First of all in this report the differences and similarities between Hamnet and other events of startup ecosystem are mentioned.

Honari website and application (honari.com) is an online place for learning different arts, preparing required materials and tools and sharing artworks. Amir Fattah Zadeh, its founder, has talked to us about this startup.

Hamnet is an event which started its activities in 1394 with the initiative of Isfahan Elite Foundation and with the chairman of Dr. Shaghayegh Haghjoo. During this one-year period, three Hamnet event are held. This event tries to recognize villagers’ abilities and use capacities provided by web space in order to contribute to promotion and stability of villages and increase contribution of villages in economy of country. First of all in this report the differences and similarities between Hamnet and other events of startup ecosystem are mentioned.

The first conference on social responsibility of enterprises is being held by the Tehran municipality. Social entrepreneurship is one of the emerging concepts in the literature of management and social entrepreneurship is a person or institution that uses innovative approach or solution to solve a social issue (like poverty, poor and marginal employment, the environment, addictions, culture, rural entrepreneurship and working children). Social businesses and social enterprises are new forms of institutions that are economically autonomous; but their goal is a social one.

Reza Kalantari Nejad, who launched Shezan startup in his 40s, has chosen to use the term “a place for creation” instead of company and believes that Shezan is for creating big events in the field of technology. Shezan is born in Bahman 1394 and around 40 people work on it.

Nazanin Daneshvar, founder and CEO of Takhfifan startup, welcomes attracting foreign investment and emphasizes on receiving knowledge from foreign parties. She says: “technology is a new area in Iran and thus the probability of domestic Iranian investors investing in this area is little because they don’t know this field and have no estimation about its risks. Therefore, one of the suitable approaches for growth of this market is attracting foreign investors.

I wanted to participate in photography courses so I searched in internet and found IranDoreh site whose office is in Isfahan. Now we talk to Mahmood Parsa, idea holder of IranDoreh.

Where does this site come from?

In 1390, I was interested in internet and needed Photoshop. I was looking for a good institution to learn this software. But I didn’t find one. After that, I participated in an entrepreneur course which led to this idea.

Paresh event is being held every 45 days which focuses on topics other than IT such as transportation, medical equipment and etc. at the end of this event, Fatemeh Moghimi (CEO of SADID company) talked about women’ efforts in the field of entrepreneurship.

What are the characteristics of a successful person?

A successful person is the one who can keep balance between living outside home and in side home. I think the one who can’t be a good mother and wife, can’t serve her society as well.

About Shanbe Magazine

Weekly Saturday is the first specialized publication in the field of startups in Iran. Our goal for promoting entrepreneurship culture and employment is to introduce startups and fields having the capacity for the launch of startup in Iran, show successful and unsuccessful foreign examples to the audience, teach how to launch a startup and how to enter global market, talk to big Iranian startup owners and new startups, cover news and news events in the field, start discussion through talking about issues with authorities and activists in this field, and authorities in private sector, solutions for problems and challenges and etc.